Δ “RED IN FOCUS”

Theme related guided tour with Oliver Hahn (research assistent Oceania collection)

In many cultures, the colour red plays a significant role in the way people see the world, whether it is painted on their bodies for beautification and protection, or serves as a sacred colour, or features in the material culture. Consequently, it is a colour that also appears in many different sections of the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”. 

Oliver Hahn guides through the exhibiton. He investigates the meaning of red as a colour in various cultures by looking at case studies from the Amazon region, New Guinea and Polynesia.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited to ten people.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ PENULTIMATE CURATORS’ GUIDED TOUR

“HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”

At the end of the exhibition, 30-minute short curators’ guided tours invite you to discover it.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT provides an opportunity to see or hear things from (potentially) unfamiliar perspectives. Combining objects from the collection with five artistic responses to the matter, the exhibition takes a critical stance to colonialism and its consequences, which are still felt today.

During a walk through the exhibition, the curators talk about the thematic focuses and how they approached them as curators.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€3 / €1.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ LAST CURATORS’ GUIDED TOUR

“HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”

At the end of the exhibition, 30-minute short curators’ guided tours invite you to discover it.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT provides an opportunity to see or hear things from (potentially) unfamiliar perspectives. Combining objects from the collection with five artistic responses to the matter, the exhibition takes a critical stance to colonialism and its consequences, which are still felt today.

During a walk through the exhibition, the curators talk about the thematic focuses and how they approached them as curators.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€3 / €1.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ ONLINE GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with sign language interpreter Christopher Moeller and with Severine Meier

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Using various objects from the exhibition, Severine Meier shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved. Sign language interpreter Christopher Moeller will be translating.

Zoom lecture and talk

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

Free of charge
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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Δ GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with Severine Meier

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Touring the exhibition, Severine Meier shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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Δ VISUAL WORKS BY THE AVIM

Curators’ talk in the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

Tomi Bartole (co-curator) in conversation with Matthias Claudius Hofmann (Oceania curator and curator of the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”). In English.

Two rooms in the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds” present contemporary paintings from the village of Avim in Papua New Guinea, which were commissioned by anthropologist Tomi Bartole while he was conducting field research there in 2019. These contemporary paintings correspond to historical paintings on sago palm sheaths which were acquired in Avim during the 1961 Sepik expedition and have since been part of the Oceania collection at the Weltkulturen Museum.

Both the historical and contemporary paintings show mythical motifs that relate the story of the Avim, while they are also being viewed as the spirits with whom Avim people interact. The Avim use the paintings and their powerful colours to pass on their sacred knowledge to the next generation. The works are visible proof that despite years of missionary work and cultural change, the aesthetic concepts and mythical motifs of the pre-Christian era have been preserved, and these are expressed in stunning visual form in the paintings.

The conversation will concern the way in which the paintings were produced during Tomi Bartole’s field research, the cooperation and joint development of the subject matter in the exhibition, and the history of the relationship between the Avim and the Weltkulturen Museum, which extends back to 1961 and has now been revived by Bartole through this research.  

Dr. Tomi Bartole is an anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among the Avim people of Papua New Guinea in 2013/2014 and 2019. His research interests concern rituals and ethnological issues about religion and politics.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited to ten people.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with Berit Mohr

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Touring the exhibition, Berit Mohr shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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Δ ***FULLY BOOKED*** CURATORS’ GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann (curator Oceania)

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Using various objects from the exhibition, curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann and co-curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski show how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

During a tour of the exhibition, the curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited to ten people.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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